Professor Mthuli Ncube is the Chief Economist and Vice President of the African Development Bank. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Finance from Cambridge University, UK. Before joining the Bank, he was Dean at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and before that was Dean and Professor of Finance at Wits Business School in South Africa. He has published widely in the area of finance and economics. He also has extensive experience as an Investment Banker.
Issa Faye is currently the Manager of the Research Division. Prior to joining the African Development Bank, he worked as an economist at the World Bank in the Research Department and the Rural Development Network of the Africa Region. Prior to this he was a lecturer at University of Auvergne /CERDI, France, from where he holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a researcher for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
Audrey Verdier-Chouchane is Chief Research Economist in the Development Research Department. Prior to joining the African Development Bank, Audrey taught Macroeconomics and Development Economics at the University of Nice, France, from where she holds a Ph.D. in Economics. She has mainly published on the analysis and measurement of poverty and inequalities.
